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If he was winning, he'd be in Kiev. If he was winning, he'd be west of the Dnieper River.

If he was winning, he'd be on Odessa. If he was winning, he would have changed the government.

Russia is, in fact, losing this war. Now, they may make movements and say, well, they're

advancing in the Donbass region and the Donetsk. But if you consider advancing moving by meters,

not miles, well, then, okay, that's successful. But at the cost they're having, it's enormous.

I don't think people truly appreciate it. It's a number. But the numbers they have lost,

when you're talking dead and wounded, well over a million. They left Afghanistan after losing

18,000. We left Vietnam after losing 65,000. They've lost over a million dead or wounded.

These numbers are at World War II levels when you think about it. They are staggering in terms of loss.

And their first-line units—the ones they came with to try to take Kiev a little over four years ago—those first-line units are gone.

So they've gone through a second, third, or fourth iteration of wartime commanders.

They're pulling tanks out of mothballs, out of museums,

to put on the battle line. They can't operate in large movements because the Ukrainians would kill them.

And the Ukrainians are fighting back.